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James Carter Cathcart, better known as Jimmy Zoppi (born March 8, 1954 in West Long Branch, New Jersey), sometimes credited as Billy Beach and his birth, is an American bassist, pianist, vocalist, and actor. He has been playing with bands since high school and has been a bassist and vocalist of the Carter Cathcart Band since 1981, and is also a pianist. Zoppi's first voiceover part was O.G. Readmore on the ABC Weekend Special. After that, he recorded voice overs for Kit Kat candy bars, Good Humor, Coors Light, and others. Jimmy Zoppi later auditioned and got several roles in the then-unknown ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series. This includes Gary Oak, James (after Creator/TedLewis & Creator/EricStuart), Butch, Meowth (after Nathan Price & Creator/MaddieBlaustein), and Professor Oak (after Stuart Zagnit). He has since become known for a prolific amount of anime dub voice work for Creator/CentralParkMedia, Creator/MediaBlasters, [=DuArt=] Film and Video, TAJ Productions, and once had multiple roles in many shows from Creator/FourKidsEntertainment. This included the role of Vector in ''Anime/SonicX'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' (utilizing a substantially different voice after his initial appearance in Sonic X, as well as being credited under a different name, led to being confused for a new actor; he was later actually replaced by Creator/DanGreen in ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames''). After continuing on with TAJ's dub of ''Pokémon'', he didn't have anymore roles in any 4Kids productions prior to their demise.

His Dallas equivalent is Creator/SonnyStrait.

He announced his retirement on 19 April 2023, which is due to throat cancer. [[https://www.cbr.com/pokemon-anime-professor-oak-james-carter-retires-cancer/]]
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!!Notable roles from Jimmy Zoppi:
* Butchie and Chess in Manga/OnePiece (4Kids Dub)
* Cerebrix and Mong in ''Animation/CubixRobotsForEveryone''
* Gary Oak, James, Meowth, Professor Oak (2006 onwards for the latter three), and numerous Pokémon and [[OneShotCharacter one-shot characters]] in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''
* Mayumi Kinniku in ''Anime/UltimateMuscle''
* Miki Kaoru, Suzuki, Tanaka and Yamada in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' and ''Anime/AdolescenceOfUtena''
* Udo Ayanokouji The 51st aka "Woody" in ''Manga/{{Aria}}''
* Vector the Crocodile in ''Anime/SonicX'' and most Sonic games up until 2010
* Weevil Underwood and Lumis in ''Anime/YuGiOh''
* Maruo Masaki in ''Manga/TheWorldOfNarue''
* Kashell and Badrach in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile''.
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